Meanwhile half way across the globe was a woman hard at work that went by the name, June Kwong. With the war starting many people were working just as hard, but this young lady was a bit more special than most for she was youngest auror ever to be recruited. Most young men and women would have to undergo training within their first few years and June Kwong was not an exception the only difference: she started her training when she was 15 and now she was 20 and one of the best decisions made by the U.S of Magic. Not only was the girl beautiful, but also she was deadly in her swift logic and in her mastery of fighting. However, as perfect as she was there was one odd thing about her. She was not a witch nor was she any kind of magical being. She was purely a muggle, which made it even more ironic as to how a muggle could become the best auror the magical kind has ever seen and yet not even be a witch. She was a normal average everyday woman except she could slit a death eater's throat with a Frisbee in 10 seconds.
One might wonder as to why June was in the U.S of Magic instead of the CIA or FBI or even the NSA. Well, you see her brother was a wizard. Unfortunately a death eater killed him four years ago that was when June decided to work for the U.S of Magic. They offered her a job after seeing her defend herself from the death eaters that invaded her home. The Ministry figured that if she was the sister of one of the best aurors of the time and she could defend herself like that then they might as well add her to the team whether she was magical or not. June had accepted the offer seeing as her only relative was dead, her brother. (The same death eaters that killed her brother had also killed the rest of her family) She figured that she had more benefits joining them rather than living on the streets like a beggar. So she trained and trained hard. She caught onto the ideas and concepts fast and on her first mission she was assigned to find the death eaters that killed her family and then kill them. She did it successfully- finding them, spying, waiting, and then attacking. She made her first kill as a 16 year old.
One might also say that the girl has to have a cold heart for being trained as a murderer at the age of 15, that for her to be successful in the type of business she was in, she had to be emotionless. Oddly enough she was not, she still held a friendly optimistic nature, but that was only when she wasn't fighting. When fighting, it was as if she really was heartless and emotionless, most people strayed from her at this time. She had a nickname, imp. Not only because imp caused much mischief, which June did a lot of, but also because imp were so small that sometimes they could only hold one emotion in their bodies at a time and could switch from one emotion to another in a matter of seconds, which is exactly what June did. When fighting she was virtually indestructible, but when it was just a normal day she was as clumsy and venerable as a big eared puppy. June was a living paradox.
So here she was, a 20 year old quietly in her office reading The Fountainhead, when all of a sudden an owl flies into the window, gracefully landing on her desk. She looks at it and is clearly bewildered as to who it might of come from. The owl held out its leg for June to grab and as she did, she heard her partner in crime walk into the room.
"Mail time, I see." Mikkeal Zappaela Favis, or otherwise known as Mikki He was June's longtime friend and partner. He was only a year older than her and one of the smartest writers June had ever had the pleasure to converse with. He was Asian, ¾ Filipino and ¼ Chinese even though he looked more Chinese than anything else, he still held the friendly Filipino nature, which is why it took June so long trying to guess his middle name because even though she was ½ Filipino and ½ Chinese, she was basically white wash.
"Like Blue's Clues." June replied as she opened the letter.
"Who's it from?" Trying not to sound like he was paranoid, Mikki casually brought up the question. Clearly he didn't recognize the owl and if he didn't recognize the owl he got either got really curious or really paranoid. Unlike June, Mikki was extremely anti-courageous, if you will. He isn't some fighting machine; in matter of a fact, he's a scaredycat and a worrywart. The exact opposite of June, he worried about his clothes and he was the only guy June knew who brought gel to the office to do his hair. He had exactly 85 ½ pairs of shoes that held their own room, the other half was considered useless since the dog next door got a hold of it and chewed it up to bits. Mikki now refuses to have anything to do with dogs. He's always trying to make himself taller than June, arguing whether who was taller, when clearly it was June by a big whomping ½ incher. He won every argument he had ever been and could have easily been the richest and snobbiest lawyers in the world, but instead he decided to join the U.S of Magic and become the partner of June and be a competitive, hair obsessive, funny wizarding guy.
"Dunno." You see June and Mikki didn't fight. They got along better than ice cream and bananas. They were perfect for each other. That's why they are partners. No not partners as in a couple, but partners as in crime buddies. They have never gone out with each other and never plan to except for the occasional give-me-an-excuse-to-get-me-out-of-this-date kind of thing. The two preferred it that way. Mikki had his absolutely wonderful girlfriend, Nicole, and June was currently single. She'd prefer it stay that way too. She found that guys were more trouble than they were worth and thought work was the better subject to focus on. So the two, Mikki and June, were called the perfect imp and sprite.
"Maybe it's from one of those freakishly weird stalkers that are trying to kill you, but at the same time fall in love you." June looked at him with an eyebrow lifted.
"Mikki, we are so not watching anymore Sunday night movies." June laughed to herself. Every Sunday the two would go out and watch a movie and then eat out, whether with friends or just the two of them. It helped them unwind from their stressful jobs. So they always left that spot open unless of course there's a Pearl Harbor bombing, but that rarely happened.
June read the letter, but by the time she reached the 3rd paragraph, she gasped. Mikki seeing her reaction, quickly asked, "What's wrong? Who wrote it? Is it a threat? What's happening?" June looked at him and his worried expression and burst out laughing.
"Relax Mikki. It's just my friend. Do you remember Lily Evans?" June asked him trying to relax him from his jumpy state. He was jumpier than usual because of the rising threat of Voldermort, a wizard of enormous power that the magical world has been trying to subdue, but he was gaining power and he was gaining power fast, faster than ever. Of course he's been threatening the magical community for 11 years now, but back then they had bigger fish to fry, but it seems that the once small fish has now turned into the biggest 20 pounder ever seen before. Currently June and Mikki were helping the war efforts by doing some small missions, but it wasn't their department to be dealing with them. Once Voldermort started to really threaten the wizarding world with an all out war, then they would get entirely involved, but for now their commanding officer wanted them doing other missions first.
"That girl you knew way back then right?" Mikki vaguely remembered. He was a bit annoyed for getting so worked up at nothing and kind of blew it off.
"That girl I knew way back then was and still is my best friend." June said as she finished reading the rest of the letter.
"Then why is it you haven't talked to her in how long?" Mikki gave her a side grin.
"Been busy saving your butt."
"Hey. My butt is totally worth saving for." Mikki pretended to be insulted as he played with the multicolored cube on June's desk.
"Well anyways, Lily is apparently getting married…"
"No invitation? Great friends." June ignored Mikki's comment and continued on, "Well turns out she's marrying James Potter."
"JAMES POTTER? Of THE Potter family, the richest and most respected family ever that could probably buy a million shoes and hair products? That James Potter?" Obviously Mikki was very up to date with the Potter family riches.
"Yes that Potter. They're supposed to be married in 2 weeks. Unfortunately it seems that they have broken it off." June bit her lip wondering what her next move would be.
"What are you going to do?" Mikki asked. Then he saw her face light up with a mischievous grin. He watched as she spoke to the intercom to the secretary.
"Say Julie, do you remember the mission that required going to England for a few months?"
"Um… The Order of the Phoenix mission, ma'am?" Mikki smiled as he remembered why she picked Julie in the first place. She was the sharpest and most dependent kind of person ever. He had never seen anyone, who was so organized, which June needed desperately, and he had never seen anyone who could carry so much information in one brain. He sometimes wondered if Julie read the encyclopedia on her spare time.
"Yes, that's it. Call in Jimmy and tell him that I'm taking up the mission." Mikki smiled. That was like June. If she was going somewhere, she might as well get some work done. Besides she was smart for asking for that mission because if she hadn't there was no way Jimmy, they're mission coordinator, would allow them to leave with no excuse. He didn't believe in vacations apparently. You could imagine what happened when Mikki was added to the group, who was always trying to find ways to get out of work for the day. He often took the day off to go get some Starbucks; yes, even wizards were part of the coffee craze.
"And Julie tell CO I'll be leaving an hour. Get Falco to snaz up the blackbird. If there are any questions that need my assistance just give me a ring. I better be on my way." Mikki shook his head at her. She was fast and good. The Order of the Phoenix mission was proposed to June by the CO (the boss). The funny thing about his name was that; CO was the commanding Officer's initials. His name is Chuck Oxy. Course no one was allowed to call him that after a newbie asked him to bleach the carpet. Anyways, June had declined the mission partly because she just got a break through on another mission that was located in the U.S and she didn't want to go live in England for more than a few weeks unless necessary. However, it seems now that necessary time has come.
She even called Falco for the Blackbird jet that can go from coast to coast in a little under two hours and around the world in 6 hours. Course she could easily have picked a faster jet, but she figured that it wasn't that urgent. Besides she wanted to check out how her baby was doing. She had been shot down in mid launch, right before she was about to wrap up the mission too. So she had to ask Falco to repair it. Whether Falcon wanted to admit it or not, June was an extremely good pilot. She was the only one that could come close to match his skills. Falco, even though he was a wizard, was the best pilot ever and was even better at flying brooms. He was offered the position of seeker on the Irish International Quidditch team, but he declined to go mess around with some of the U.S jets and practice brooms.
"Will Mr. Favis be joining you?" Julie asked. Mikki usually accompanied June on her missions for support and for the magic aspect of the mission, but this time June decided Mikki staying here in the U.S was the better idea.
"Not this time, Julie. I still think Mikki is a bit sick from the last time he rode with me in the Blackbird." And what a time that was, Mikki had decided never to eat a crumb of food two days prior to stepping onto a jet with June as the pilot.
"Thank Merlin. I think I would have died." Mikki faked dying.
"I think I would have died if I saw you eat another cheeseburger like you did yesterday." June smirked.
"Ha. Ha. Very funny." Mikki watched as June gathered her backpack, a pair of gloves, and some goggles, "Is that all you're taking? No clothes?" What would June do without him…
"Uh… Julie!"
"Already been taken care of Miss!" or Julie.
"You're an angel."
"Someone around here has to be, especially with a wild imp running around," snorted Mikki.
"You keep that up buddy and I might just make you come with me to England." June retorted as she walked out of her office heading for the runway.
"Wait. One question!" Mikki called after her.
"What is it, Mikki?" June looked impatient.
"Who was the letter sent by?"
"Uh.. Alice Longbottom. Why?" June seemed surprised.
"No reason." Mikki turned around with a big grin.
